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Comindwork 2.2 - Sep 30, 2008

  • Business Intelligence/BSC/Data Mining
  • Improved custom workflows development, visual editor
  • Platform: ability to manage several companies at same time
  • Integration with Calendar
  • Usability: link everything 2 everything
  • Files: complete integration with SVN
  • Dynamic notification rules for project entities
  • Integrated chats and video conferencing solutions (Userplane or Webex)
  • Public profiles for users, promotion on Comindwork site
  • New semantic features and visualizations

Comindwork 2.1.5 - Aug 31, 2008

New Features

  • Business Processes Management
    • All lists get drop-downs and multiple views (list, card, thumbnails)
    • Customizable lists to select fields, filtering options, grouping, operations
    • Mass operations over entities. Simple (delete, star, resolve) and complex (change fields, re-assign)
    • Customizable workflows beta (new entities, new fields, transitions)
    • Share page to friend (sending by email)
    • Reminders can be attached to any entity
  • New integrations in Comindwork ecosystem
    • Import from SalesForce
    • Invite from Yahoo and OpenSocial (orkut?)
    • Twitter integration beta
  • Files area and SVN improvements
  • AJAX based in-list editing, list-rollovers with available actions
  • New language refined: German

Improvements

  • Morning email - more intelligent
  • RichEditor - new icons to make pages smiling
  • Better and cleaner RSS covering all the items
  • Widgets control: resize columns, drag widgets around, async loading infrastructure
  • True co-editing - avoid overwrite!

Comindwork 2.1- July 31, 2008


New Features

  • Invite people to projects from your accounts on Google, Facebook and Salesforce
  • Open projects can now share information about milestones and cases
  • Comindwork speaks 23 languages (integrated with Google translation. German and Italian are manually improved.
  • Open authentication model - you can now login with OpenID or your gmail/yahoo accounts
  • Advanced search features (search by specific projects, entities, within timeframe)
  • Semantic advisor now suggests results based on semantic analysis (not keyword search)
  • To-Dos are added for tracking easy tasks
  • Import of data from Basecamp is now beta tested!

Improvements

  • iCalendar integration
  • HTML Editor - quote, auto-attach, more usable and stable
  • Auto-saving of drafts to avoid loosing of content
  • Code formatting is added for programmers
  • True co-editing (special widgets "who-is-here")
  • More useful widgets: helpers, announcers of features, features-suggested, beta.
  • Customizable widgets - collapse widgets, change look
  • True localization for emails

Comindwork 2.0 - April 2008


New features

  • User friendly interface - finally web 2.0 full power!
  • History of activities visualizes the project timeline
  • Files - mass operations online are enabled
  • New options for customization - 10 brand new skins
  • Widget for associations shows what is linked to/from certain pages and cases
  • New widgets: authors in the project blog, monthly archive of blog

Improvements

  • Wiki page got better version history and "compare to previous version" features
  • Search is faster and more relevant
  • Disable accounts, more fields about user and company
  • Pop-overs with additional information about projects, users
  • FAQ, various help topics across the system features
  • Improved forms with tips and comments

Comindwork 1.5 - February 4, 2008 (1 year!)

Comindwork is 1 year old today! Since our 1st release we got huge attention, recommendations and reviews. Following users suggestions we've added the following features and improvements.

New Features

  • Time Tracking business process is added. Users can track time separately or from tasks.
  • Open projects feature enables users to make their projects be opened to public and control what specifically can be visible.
  • We opened Comindwork API to make Comindwork an open platform, you can create your own applications now which use Comindwork storage data
  • Time zone support for distributed teams is now fully functional
  • Russian version of Comindwork site and software is launched
  • New useful widgets: tag cloud widget, online users
  • Favorites allow to bookmark any entity just like in Gmail

Improvements

  • Blogs are improved for posting and commenting
  • Rich editor: paste from MS Word feature
  • Milestones calendar widget
  • Project goal widget
  • Smart project deletion
  • Notifications and emails parser
  • Usability: breadcrumbs improved navigation
  • Guiding tips are now keeping users informed about the status and recommend the next steps.

Comindwork 1.0 - November 2007

After getting huge summer 2007 feedback we made another round of improvements and added new features per user feedback.

New Features

  • Milestones are added to link schedules and tasks
  • Rich editor is added so people unaware about wiki markup could also create visually appealing wiki pages
  • Recurrent morning emails are now sending to notify about the latest activities across all your projects
  • SVN is integrated to file storage
  • Branding for own site - use your logo and domain names

Improvements

  • Rich emails with graphics are used for notifications
  • Feature for case of users
  • Upload of userpics is simplified to promote faces in Comindwork
  • Faster! Client-side and server-side performance optimization are done. Users hate waiting for page load.
  • Sign-up process, admin guiding. Get-started widget and explanations about 1st steps.
  • Significant UI and usability improvements.
  • Simplify - hide or optimize "difficult features requiring training" per users feedbacks

Comindwork 0.5 - June 5, 2007

  • Added SaaS delivery model so different people could work in the same system
  • domain.comindwork.com - ability to sign up and create a site
  • Login page and registration forms are created
  • Improved permissions model to guarantee sandboxed work

Comindwork 0.25 - February 6, 2007

The v0.25 Comindwork was the copy of the internal NewtonIdeas Extranet v4.5 software. We included the common functionality and temporarily hid the most of too specific features. The key difference of Comindwork was the unique integration of Enterprise Wiki + Tasks + Blog + Files in one place.

Business Processes

  • Enterprise wiki for collaborative wiki pages creation and co-editing
  • Cases and discussions for making things done, each task has exactly 1 responsible person
  • Blog for informal ideas sharing and discussions
  • File storage for documents, source code, images

Supporting Features

  • Link everything (associations), tags
  • Reports and charts to visualize project state and progress
  • Search everywhere - in tasks, wiki pages, user profiles, entire storage)
  • RSS and Email notifications to support "total awareness" and transparency
  • Printing pages and tasks
  • Flexible administration of projects, companies and user accounts

Included Aspects

  • Authentication of users
  • Organizational structure and roles (authorization: Company / Project / Accounts)
  • Advanced permissions for wiki and other entities using roles schemes and ability to change that by managers
  • Versions for every page and task, audit trails of changes
  • Logging usage
  • Friendly URLs publishing
  • Performance: caching, scalability

Not Included Features

Some of the modules are disabled in Comindwork hosted version and can be included/configured by request:

  • Integrations:
    • With Microsoft Exchange - Calendar and Public Folders
    • Microsoft Reporting Services
    • Microsoft Analysis Services (OLAP cubes visualization)
  • Multi-site deployment synchronization with central storage
  • Billing module: invoicing and charges support
  • Tasks and scheduling
  • HR business processes (vacations, availability, etc) and Payroll
  • Tasks estimates logic
  • Multi-layers vendor-client logic
  • Software development specialized processes (e.g. requirements management)
  • Mail parser to get tasks via email

Comindwork Blog

August 19, 2011 Comindwork v.3 is launched!

We're glad to announce the release of brand new Comindwork Version 3. It's all about great enhancements to user interface and more predefined solutions for variety of needs. The new features include the following...

May 18, 2011 Fine-grained permissions are now available in all editions

Fine-grained permissions are released for all editions including the free edition. You can now restrict the visibility for the project, project tabs (tickets, wiki), the particular records or even hide specific fields (for example you might want to hide the task price for the freelancer, or raw hours-tracked from the customer).

April 23, 2011 Uploading folders and map Comindwork as a network drive

Need to copy large archives or tons of files in folders? You now got a new way to do that. Just connect a network drive which will show all Comindwork files on it. After that you can work with this drive as with your usual local computer drive. I.e. you can copy many files or folders at once. Open and edit MS Office documents and immediately keep them saved in Comindwork without the need to upload back again. Your feedback is highly appreciated.

March 8, 2011 Need customizable help desk for your customers? Track the feedback in Comindwork!

Help desk is now added as a separate workspace template. Just create a "help desk" workspace and see preconfigured tickets, knowledge base and email templates. As usual - all of that is easily customizable. You can fully change the email templates, the look of the form or the customer knowledge base.

February 15, 2011 Upload up to 2GB file without pain!

Uploading large files to the cloud was always a pain. Now you can upload up to 2GB files with your browser without any problems. As always you can select many large files and leave the uploading. We hope you'll like this convenience.

January 05, 2011 Launch of Community Forum

We're glad that our users community keeps growing. And we've decided to make a place, where the latest news, all the possibilities, usage scenarios may be found and discussed. We hope our forum will grow into a place to find the answer to any question!

December 23, 2010 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!


Comindwork wishes you more projects, more productivity, more efficiency, and less .. misunderstanding!

August 23, 2010 Advanced use: accessing your tasks in single click

Sometimes it's crucial for user adoption to allow your users to access their content really quickly. In single click. For this reason we often use "Custom tab" functionality as a way to put quick link to specific list or item.

June 18, 2010 Comindwork includes Chat / Instant messenger

By including chat and Instant messenger into its tools, Comindwork expands the range of tools for real-time collaboration. See who's online and send messages right from your web browser.

June 18, 2010 Gantt automatic date shift

Gantt Chart tool is now able to automatically shift finish-to-start dependent tasks. If you have linked tasks, and extend or move forward one of "parent" tasks, you'll be asked to shift all dependent tasks further in time. This is useful for all project managers who deal with tasks in real time, by the time of execution.

June 9, 2010 Using "backlinks" to quickly add connected objects

Imagine you have two of your workflows connected. Say, you're doing a software project, and it has "Development features" and "Tickets / Issues" connected to features. "Backlinks" is a functionality that allows you to quickly add tickets (dependent objects), when reviewing feature (parent object). This is useful whenever you have 1-to-N parent-child relationship between two different types of objects.

March 24, 2010 Gantt chart becomes more flexible

We've done lots of improvements throughout the system lately. One of the improvements that make life more easy, is possibility to customize columns on Gantt view. Default view includes task title, status, start and finish dates, but we don't want to limit our customers in such a way.

December 16, 2009 Easy steps to track issues or bugs

With new possibility to import tickets from a spreadsheet, Comindwork creates a lot easier way to manage issues: tickets, tasks, bugs, requests etc. Now you may either one-time import your tickets from legacy issue tracking system to use in Comindwork, or apply this feature to update items using Excel or another spreadsheet software.

November 24, 2009 Quick search

Quick way to find data is one of the keys to quick work. And now it's more easy to search from any page on your Comindwork site. Instead of "Search" tab, there's a handy widget that opens many possibilities to enhance your search. Just see the right-top corner of Comindwork environment.

October 23, 2009 PaaS Business Thriller

Comindwork makes step toward becoming a PaaS, Platform-as-a-Service. In most knowledge-based companies you have a lot of data that you need to share, collaboratively change, discuss, analyze and store somewhere. It's fun, but Comindwork allows all those things in one place.

October 13, 2009 External Login widget

We are dedicated to become really close to customer team and clients. That's why we launch "External Login widget". It's the way to put link to your Comindwork to your company web site.

September 17, 2009 Comindwork 2.5.2 is ready for local trial download

We've launched new version of local installation trial package, versioned Comindwork 2.5.2. New release is identical to everything that can be found in SaaS version. Comindwork is unique by providing flexibility to choose between working on our facilities and paying subscription fee, or by installing locally on your servers.

September 1, 2009 Will subscription model survive on-demand trend

Recently, there’s a lot of talks about total cost of SaaS, and why it’s not getting so much adoption from users. We at Comindwork are both vendor of SaaS solution, and active SaaS adopters. One of our goals is to make our work completely virtual, without using any in-house infrastructure. That’s what on-demand promises to be easy. But what’s bothering, is current payment schemes.

July 2, 2009 Gantt Chart across projects

Using Gantt charts for the project is great. But it is even more existing to see ALL projects visualized as meta-project by Gantt charts. Thus you can see progress and responsible people for top-level tasks and get quick understanding of all projects. You can see multi-projects view and have 2 additional options: defining the level of details and the task-keepers. Just enable this feature in Comindwork Labs and see your "All->All Gantt" menu item.

July 1, 2009 Comindwork Labs is opened

Finally, we've found a proper place for beta-features. Now you may choose to enable or disable new features using Comindwork Labs. Search for the green bottle in the top-right menu, and choose which items work for you. We're working to move lots of features to Labs mode, and the features currently available are: Gantt Chart across projects, Tasks / Tickets Widget on Dashboard, WYSIWYG Editor Support for Tables, "Move wiki page to another project".

June 18, 2009 Sharing usage scenarios & best practices

Comindwork has a lot of tools that may be used and combined in various ways. We've gathered some of the most important scenarios of Comindwork usage (sometimes they're referred as "GTDs" or "use cases") and want to share it with our customers.

June 17, 2009 Download Comindwork and install locally for free

Comindwork free downloadable trial? We understand that SaaS is not appropriate for some of the companies. For those who want more control over data, quicker response time, have company restrictions on "external" software etc.

June 1, 2009 Personalize login screen with company content

Sometimes a company needs to open up lot of information about ongoing work. You can inform your clients, or whole outer world about your actions by using "open area" and by customizing Comindwork login screen.

May 25, 2009 Using Comindwork as CRM+PM system

The scheme applies to companies where to find a new client is relatively easy comparing to satisfying one's needs. For the purpose of all-in-one management, Comindwork may be used as both simpliest CRM and project management solution.

May 11, 2009 Fast File Search

The majority of corporate information (up to 80%) is stored within documents. This information is usually unstructured and it is quite a task to find something there. This is one of the reasons why information retrieval takes so much time for an average knowledge worker. With Comindwork you may forget about this mess and have all your corporate data at your fingertips!